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A Message from Lorena

This is your gentle beginning

Choose the path that feels most gentle and right for you in this moment, and move through the experience at your own pace.

Begin the pathway wherever your heart feels called

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Self-Love

Your healing begins the moment you choose yourself.

Let this be your first step back to you.

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Choose Yourself, Choose Self-Love
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Healing

Healing begins in the smallest, and most quiet moments.

Be gentle… this is sacred ground.

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One Small Step Toward Healing
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Coming Home

Home has always been waiting within you.

Nothing to prove. Just come home.

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There's Peace in Coming Home

Begin with Stillness

Pause. Breathe. Reflect. Be gentle with yourself. Ask your heart what healing you need today?

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Journal Prompt

A quiet question waiting to meet your truth.

One prompt to begin. Your story is safe to unfold here.

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Grab a Paper and Pen
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Guided Meditation

Let your breath guide you home.

Close your eyes… Be still and return.

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One Small Step Toward Healing
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Visual Reflection

Let images speak where words cannot.

See your story with new eyes.

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Shift and Reframe

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Simple exercises to help you reconnect with yourself.

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Becoming You!

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Embracing Life’s Beautiful Mess

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Workbook

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What People Are Saying

  • " I love this book.  It is full of valuable information that can transform your life, and it has a practical workbook built right into it, with powerful questions for deep reflection to help you successfully integrate it all into your life. 

    Jack Canfield
    Co-Author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul ® Series and The Success Principles ™

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    “In Embracing Life’s Beautiful Mess, another survivor tells her story of abuse by someone close to her and how she survived, learned to reinvent her life, and now shares her secrets with all of us. Her personal stories through-out are extremely relatable, and I believe that if you will do the exercises in each chapter, you will find that they WORK.”

    Jan Broberg

    Actress, Director, Victim, Thrivivor

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    "Embracing Life's Beautiful Mess" by Lorena Swenson is a poignant exploration of the human experience, weaving together heartwarming anecdotes and insightful reflections, and targeted exercises that walk you through your self discovery journey. Swenson's narrative encourages readers to find beauty in life's imperfections, making it a compelling and uplifting read for those seeking inspiration and a deeper connection with the messy, yet beautiful, tapestry of life.

    Debbie Brayton Heisler

    Author, 2023 USA Today Utah Woman of the year, Resilient Living Coach,Co-Founder Blue Butterfly House

About the Author

Lorena Sullivan Swenson is a writer, guide, and compassionate voice for those learning to heal, grow, and come home to themselves.

Through her blended memoir Embracing Life’s Beautiful Mess, its Companion Workbook, and her transformational series Becoming You!—including the book, guided journal, and card deck—Lorena shares her deeply personal journey of rising through life’s ordinary challenges, as well as abuse, trauma, and profound loss, with honesty, courage, and unwavering hope. Her work weaves storytelling, reflection, and practical tools to help readers rediscover their strength, rewrite old patterns, and create lives rooted in self-love and conscious choice.

A mother of four, a bonus son, and a proud grandmother of eleven. Lorena lives in Utah with her husband, Jeff. She finds meaning in quiet moments, beauty in imperfection, and purpose in walking beside others on the path of healing.

Lorena’s mission is simple yet powerful: to remind you that even in life’s messiest seasons, healing is possible, your story can be rewritten, and you can create of your future.

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Contact Lorena

I’m so grateful you spent this time here with me. It is my sincere hope that something within this experience reminded you of your strength, your beauty, and the possibility of healing.

I would love to hear from you and walk beside you in whatever part of the journey you are on. Until then, be gentle with yourself—you are becoming in ways you may not yet see.

With love,
Lorena

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